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Cnn.com |
6:27pm PDT |
Report: Corruption threatens Iraq gains |
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Summary: Iraq has made "limited but important" political, diplomatic and economic gains in the last three months, but improvements in security remain "fragile," the Pentagon reported Tuesday.
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BBC News |
6:12pm PDT |
Doubts raised over MRSA screening |
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Summary: Doubts are raised over MRSA screening after a study suggests it may not significantly reduce infections. |
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BBC News |
6:12pm PDT |
MRSA screening doubts raised |
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Summary: Doubts are raised over MRSA screening after a study suggests it may not significantly reduce infections. |
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BBC News |
6:06pm PDT |
Detainees in police 'near misses' |
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Summary: About 1,000 people are involved each year in incidents involving serious illness or self-harm while in police custody, a report suggests. |
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Cnn.com |
6:04pm PDT |
Mary Ann from 'Gilligan's Island' busted |
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Yahoo News |
6:04pm PDT |
Obama wins Mississippi primary
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Barack Obama won Tuesday's Democratic primary in the southern state of Mississippi, racking up another victory over Hillary Clinton in the party's bitter White House race. |
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Yahoo News |
5:58pm PDT |
Obama beats Clinton in Mississippi
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama easily beat
rival Hillary Clinton in Mississippi on Tuesday, giving him new
momentum in their heated presidential fight as they head into a
critical showdown in Pennsylvania in six weeks. |
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Yahoo News |
5:56pm PDT |
Obama coasts to victory in Miss. primary
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama coasted to victory in Mississippi's Democratic primary Tuesday, latest in a string of racially polarized presidential contests across the Deep South and a final tune-up before next month's high-stakes race with Hillary Rodham Clinton in |
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Cnn.com |
5:55pm PDT |
Obama wins Mississippi primary, CNN projects |
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Summary: Barack Obama will win the Mississippi Democratic primary, CNN projects. The state has 33 Democratic delegates up for grabs. Meanwhile, CNN estimates show that Obama won last week's Texas Democratic caucuses and will get more delegates out of the state tha |
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BBC News |
5:51pm PDT |
UK team in bacteria breakthrough |
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Summary: Scientists have discovered how a bacterium which causes pneumonia has become resistant to penicillin. |
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Yahoo News |
5:44pm PDT |
Jackson gets flu, bails from 'SNL' show
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Janet Jackson has dropped out of her upcoming "Saturday Night Live" performance because she has the flu, the singer's representative said Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
5:40pm PDT |
Televangelist's husband pleads guilty
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The husband of televangelist Juanita Bynum pleaded guilty Tuesday to assaulting her, was sentenced to three years' probation and then turned to her and apologized. |
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BBC News |
5:38pm PDT |
Obama 'wins' Mississippi primary |
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Summary: Barack Obama beats Hillary Clinton in a primary vote in the US state of Mississippi, according to US media projections. |
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Cnn.com |
5:28pm PDT |
Democrats unveil new surveillance bill |
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Summary: House Democratic leaders unveiled legislation Tuesday to update the nation's wiretapping program, rejecting a Senate-passed version of the bill that would give telecommunications companies legal immunity for agreeing to participate in the program after th |
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Yahoo News |
5:28pm PDT |
Late Pat Tillman on College Hall ballot
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The late Pat Tillman, a former Arizona State linebacker who gave up a professional football career to join the military, is among 19 players up for election to the College Football Hall of Fame for the first time this year. |
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Yahoo News |
5:27pm PDT |
Rio Tinto chopper disappears in Peru, 10 missing
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A helicopter for mining giant Rio Tinto
disappeared on Tuesday with 10 people aboard, the company said. |
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Yahoo News |
5:14pm PDT |
Republicans uphold Bush veto of anti-torture bill
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush's fellow
Republicans in Congress on Tuesday upheld his veto of a bill to
ban the CIA from subjecting enemy detainees to interrogation
methods denounced by critics as torture. |
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BBC News |
5:13pm PDT |
'No reason' for whisky duty rise |
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Summary: The whisky industry argues there is no good reason for a duty rise, ahead of Chancellor Alistair Darling's first budget. |
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BBC News |
5:11pm PDT |
Plastic card fraud rises by 25% |
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Summary: Fraudulent use of UK credit and debit cards rose by a quarter last year, with losses amounting to £535m. |
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BBC News |
5:06pm PDT |
Public schools 'may have to shut' |
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Summary: Independent schools are warned they will not be able to reopen as businesses if they lose charitable status. |
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Yahoo News |
5:06pm PDT |
Obama leading Clinton in Mississippi
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama seized the lead in the Mississippi primary Tuesday, latest in a string of racially polarized contests across the Deep South in the Democratic presidential campaign and a final tune-up before next month's high-stakes race with Hillary Rod |
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Yahoo News |
5:05pm PDT |
Obama wins Mississippi Democratic presidential race
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Sen. Barack Obama won the
Mississippi contest to choose a Democratic presidential
candidate on Tuesday, his second victory since a pair of
big-state losses kept him from knocking rival Hillary Clinton
out of the race, U.S. media projected. |
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Yahoo News |
5:02pm PDT |
French prosecutor wants U.S. airline charged over crash
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A French public prosecutor has asked
judges to bring manslaughter charges against U.S. carrier
Continental Airlines over the 2000 crash of a Concord flight
that killed 113 people, the prosecutor's office said on
Tuesday. |
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Cnn.com |
4:59pm PDT |
I-Report: Sights, sounds of night shuttle launch |
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Yahoo News |
4:50pm PDT |
Panel upholds firing of Ark. trooper
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The state police director properly dismissed a state trooper who admitted seeking a three-way sex encounter between his wife and two women in a car he had stopped for driving with expired tags, the Arkansas State Police Commission decided Friday. |
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Cnn.com |
4:33pm PDT |
Mississippi goes to polls |
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Summary: Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are facing off today in one of the most Republican states in the nation. Mississippi, which has not voted for a Democratic candidate in a presidential election in 32 years, is holding primaries today. The state has 3 |
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Cnn.com |
4:31pm PDT |
Experts, colleagues weigh in on Spitzer scandal |
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Cnn.com |
4:31pm PDT |
Experts, colleagues weigh in on Spitzer |
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Yahoo News |
4:28pm PDT |
Report shows uptick in Iraq violence since January
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iraq has seen an uptick in violence
since January, including high-profile suicide and car bomb
attacks, partly as a result of recent U.S.-led offensives
against Islamist militants, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
4:26pm PDT |
US: Syria backs foreign fighters in Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Despite increased counterterrorism efforts by Damascus, as much as 90 percent of the foreign fighters in Iraq cross the border from Syria, according to a Pentagon report that says Iran's support for Shiite militants also is hurting efforts to improve |
